Vivek Kumar

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2024 - Present • 1 yr 9 mos

• Design and developed real-time onboarding platform using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and REST APIs in a regulated banking environment. • Collaborated with product owners, architects, and compliance teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical architecture. • Architected event-driven orchestration using Kafka improving system scalability and decoupling services. • Designed optimized Cassandra data models for high-throughput low-latency transactions. • Led Angular frontend development implementing lazy loading, reactive forms, and performance optimization. • Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and deployed on Cloud Foundry, reducing release. • Mentored developers, conducted code reviews, enforced engineering best practice. • Improved system reliability and performance through centralized logging, monitoring, API validation frameworks, and proactive incident resolution.

Senior Software Engineer

May 2023 - Aug 2024 • 1 yr 3 mos

• Developed and implemented software solutions to improve the efficiency of the existing systems. • Analyzed user requirements, developed detailed system design specifications and wrote program code for applications using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Kafka. • Built Restful APIs and microservices that enabled communication between different platforms within an enterprise environment. • Tested, debugged and corrected errors in programs to ensure accuracy and completeness. • Analyzed existing system code and propose improvements when necessary. • Perform unit and behavior testing of software components. • Monitored performance of applications after deployment in a production environment. • Participated in regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss project progress. • Implemented Auth0-based authentication and role-based access control(RBAC) for security enhancement.